Summers are made to be spent outside and absorbing as much vitamin D as one can. One good way to accomplish this summer mission is to visit the New York Botanical Garden and attend the exhibition Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx through September 29.

New York had the chance to know the art of Burle Marx in 2016 in the exhibit Robert Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist shown at the Jewish Museum. It was an excellent intro to his works, which included landscape architecture to painting, sculpture to theater design, and tapestry to jewelry design.

This time, New York has the chance to see what is inspired by a Burle Marx famous work: Copacabana beach boardwalk. The original piece consists of black and white cobblestones that form wave design patterns resembling beach waves. In the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory of the Botanical Garden, the viewer follows a black and white wave path surrounded by flowers and plants placed in a way that forms a color pallet along the way. The flowers and plants are native of Brazil and can be found at Sitio, Burle Marx property in Brazil. The most noticeable are the bromeliads, flowers of long-lasting blooms and green leaves. Their flower shades are typically pink, red, orange or yellow.

This beautiful colorful path leads us to the conservatory’s pool of the Botanical Garden, where we find the orange types of Bromeliads along large round green leaves.

Another highlight of the exhibit is the water fountain at the edge of garden that mimics his famous work at the rooftop of the Banco Safra building, a bank in São Paulo.

There is a portion of the exhibition on display at the NYBG library. It includes paintings, illustrations and tapestries mostly made during the dictatorship period in Brazil (1964-1985).

It is certainly very inspiring to see the passion of Burle Marx for the nature and the environment in times where climate is changing, although some world leaders, including the Brazilian president, are still denying it.

Lastly, once you’re in the NYBG, be sure to visit this place in its entirety as much as you can. Throughout your walk, you will find boards with written poetry in both English and Portuguese besides the bossa nova style music playing in the speakers inside the Conservatory, where the exhibit is being held. For someone who had only visited the NYBG during the Holiday Train Show, a visit in the summer was way overdue.